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> This league played with five minute negotiation turns; these time controls allowed games to be completed within two hours. Cicero ranked in the top 10% of participants who played more than one game and 2 nd out of 19 participants in the league that played 5 or more games. Across all 40 games, Cicero 's mean score was 25.8%, more than double the average score of 12.4% of its 82 opponents. As part of the league, Cicero participated in an 8-game tournament involving 21 participants, 6 of whom played at least 5 games. Participants could play a maximum of 6 games with their rank determined by the average of their best 3 games. Cicero placed 1st in this tournament.

Seems too low amount of data to conclude anything?



Winning a tournament and good average scores means that we can conclude that Cicero is not an appalling player - reasonable to say it's human level.


It is small I agree. It I think it’s like if a chess engine wins against a grandmaster a handful of times, it’s enough data to know that it works.




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